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cs.LG2026

DarwinLM: Evolutionary Structured Pruning of Large Language Models

Shengkun Tang, Oliver Sieberling, Eldar Kurtic +2

The paper introduces DarwinLM, an evolutionary search method for training-aware structured pruning of large language models that integrates lightweight post‑pruning training to fin…

cs.LG2026

AIMER: Calibration-Free Task-Agnostic MoE Expert Pruning

Zongfang Liu, Guangyi Chen, Shengkun Tang +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models increase parameter capacity without proportional per-token computation, yet deployment still requires storing the full expert pool, making…

cs.LG2026

SlimQwen: Exploring the Pruning and Distillation in Large MoE Model Pre-training

Shengkun Tang, Zekun Wang, Bo Zheng +7

Structured pruning and knowledge distillation (KD) are typical techniques for compressing large language models, but it remains unclear how they should be applied at pretraining sc…

cs.LG2026

EvoESAP: Non-Uniform Expert Pruning for Sparse MoE

Zongfang Liu, Shengkun Tang, Boyang Sun +2

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) language models achieve strong capability at low per-token compute, yet deployment remains constrained by memory footprint and throughput because t…

cs.CV2026

Diff-ES: Stage-wise Structural Diffusion Pruning via Evolutionary Search

Zongfang Liu, Shengkun Tang, Zongliang Wu +2

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity image generation but remain computationally demanding due to their multi-step denoising process and large model s…

cs.CL2026

Sink-Aware Pruning for Diffusion Language Models

Aidar Myrzakhan, Tianyi Li, Bowei Guo +2

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) incur high inference cost due to iterative denoising, motivating efficient pruning. Existing pruning heuristics largely inherited from autoregressi…